echoinglight
You have a choice. You always have a choice. And now it's time to choose. Come on, look at your options. There's nothing that ever gives you "no choice". So whatever you're putting off, stop. Because it's time to choose.
Of ALL places to get stuck in - a barrel. He wasn't even NEAR the barrel, or, he hadn't planned to be... then footsteps and without thinking, he'd scurried over and jumped inside, down down onto a bit pile of fruit. Apples, smelt like. And he was so small that for all his jumping, he couldn't reach the top. So... now what?
Now, do it now, always is the phrase that is pushed into us. Into our heads, into our lifestyles, we are told that now is when and how to do it. But I've always been one to take the slower approach, to really think about the things I do, and that's put me in a different place in life.
He could never sate his need for it, for any of it. It was this strange, constant need that he couldn't control, keeping him locked in this form of stasis. He couldn't be satisfied. There was no sating the addiction, no curing him of it, no filling the piece of his soul that emptied just as soon as it was filled.